Kathmandu, November 4
The CPN (Maoist Centre), which had recently decided to unite with eight parties including the CPN (Unified Socialist), has split.
Former Deputy General Secretary Janardan Sharma, former Secretary Ram Karki, and former Standing Committee member Anjana Bishunkhe, among others, have left the party and launched a new campaign.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Sharma announced a new political campaign called Progressive Campaign, Nepal.
Sharma, who had long been in conflict with the party’s central leadership, said he decided to withdraw from the unification process because the party and its leadership had deviated from the spirit and demands raised during the decade-long Maoist conflict and the recent Gen Z movement.
He also made a self-criticism, admitting that they had been complicit in the misconduct and wrongdoings of the previous leadership, and claimed that they were now launching this campaign to move forward with renewed integrity.
“Accepting our past weaknesses, we are moving ahead with a new campaign,” Sharma said at the press conference. “An ideological and political effort has commenced to unite the fragmented leftist and progressive forces toward a unified socialist movement.”
